When Classical Learning Meets Public Education, the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic

The future of the controversial classical education movement will be showcased later this month when Columbia University senior lecturer Roosevelt Montás is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at a national symposium hosted by Great Hearts, the biggest classical charter network. Roosevelt Montás: Signaling classical education’s effort to diversify.  Columbia U. Princeton University Press The… Continue reading When Classical Learning Meets Public Education, the Dialogue Isn’t Always Socratic

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Why Did God Create Dinosaurs? (& More Patrons’ Questions)

Podcast: Download MYS301: We regularly give Patrons the opportunity to ask Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli their mysterious questions and make them available exclusively to Patrons first and then later to the whole audience. This time the questions cover why God created dinosaurs; Dom & Jimmy’s own mysterious experiences; foo fighters; and more. Get all… Continue reading Why Did God Create Dinosaurs? (& More Patrons’ Questions)

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The Opioid Crisis Is Now Being Tracked with Wastewater

Wastewater-based epidemiology, the process of monitoring health indicators through sewage, has become a common way to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. But before 2020 scientists were using the technology to follow a different public health threat: the opioid crisis. Just as sewage data can fill gaps in SARS-CoV-2 tracking, this… Continue reading The Opioid Crisis Is Now Being Tracked with Wastewater

Borders, Migrants, & the State of the Union

Very soon, “Catholic” President Biden will address Americans at the 2024 State of the Union.    No matter what spin he puts on things, Americans must know that the state of our nation is gravely imperiled by many of Biden’s failed policies – most especially, his misguided “compassion” regarding immigration that egregiously violates Catholic social teaching… Continue reading Borders, Migrants, & the State of the Union

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Climate Concern Grows Nationwide, Even in Some Republican States

CLIMATEWIRE | American voters are increasingly concerned about global warming, a new national public opinion analysis found, but that hasn’t changed the deeply partisan lens through which voters still view climate policy. The 2023 Yale Climate Opinion Maps report released Tuesday found that two-thirds of Americans agree that “developing clean energy should be a priority for the president… Continue reading Climate Concern Grows Nationwide, Even in Some Republican States

Toilet Taboos Can Make Scientific Fieldwork Dangerous

Gawain Antell knew something was seriously wrong when students started vomiting. In spring 2019, the paleobiologist — then earning a Ph.D. at the University of Oxford — was working as a teaching assistant on a geological mapping field trip in Scotland when, after returning to the hotel, a handful of undergraduate women grew grievously ill.… Continue reading Toilet Taboos Can Make Scientific Fieldwork Dangerous

China’s New Dark Matter Lab Is Biggest and Deepest Yet

Some 2,400 metres below the Jinping Mountains in southwest China, the world’s deepest and largest underground laboratory has just opened. The enormous space is home to scientists who are hunting down dark matter — the hypothetical substance that is thought to make up more than 80% of the mass in the Universe. The China Jinping… Continue reading China’s New Dark Matter Lab Is Biggest and Deepest Yet

Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever way to store quantum information. His encoding had two key properties. First, it could tolerate errors that only affected individual qubits. Second, it came with a procedure for correcting errors as they occurred, preventing them… Continue reading Never-Repeating Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information

Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand

Transnational security investigator Abdelkader Abderrahmane set out from the Moroccan city of Kenitra with two research assistants to inspect sand-mining sites on the Atlantic Ocean coast. They drove across the dry, flat terrain for six kilometers, the last stretch on a rutted dirt road that had them crawling in low gear, windows closed against the… Continue reading Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand

Your Body Has Its Own Built-In Ozempic

January 25, 2024 4 min read Your Body Has Its Own Built-In Ozempic Popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs, such as Ozempic and Wegovy, target metabolic pathways that gut microbes and food molecules already play a key role in regulating By Christopher Damman & The Conversation US The following essay is reprinted with permission from The… Continue reading Your Body Has Its Own Built-In Ozempic